Lester Russell Brown
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- Bachelors Agricultural Science Rutgers University
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Published Works
- Who Will Feed China?: Wake-Up Call for a Small Planet (1995) (661)
- ワールドウォッチ研究所地球白書 = State of the world : a Worldwatch Institute report on progress toward a sustainable society (1987) (319)
- China's water shortage could shake world food security. (1998) (263)
- State of the World (1986) (201)
- Full Planet, Empty Plates: The New Geopolitics of Food Scarcity (2012) (166)
- Outgrowing the Earth: The Food Security Challenge in an Age of Falling Water Tables and Rising Temperatures (2004) (162)
- Soil Erosion: Quiet Crisis in the World Economy (1984) (129)
- World on the Edge: How to Prevent Environmental and Economic Collapse (2011) (126)
- Full House: Reassessing the Earth's Population Carrying Capacity (1994) (120)
- Vital Signs: The Trends That Are Shaping Our Future (1992) (114)
- World population growth, soil erosion, and food security. (1981) (106)
- State of the World 2000 (2000) (100)
- State of the World 1990 (1991) (95)
- Seeds of Change: The Green Revolution and Development in the 1970's (1971) (86)
- Redefining National Security (1977) (79)
- Could food shortages bring down civilization? (2009) (77)
- Beyond Malthus: Nineteen Dimensions of the Population Challenge (1999) (74)
- Feeding nine billion (1999) (73)
- Food or fuel: new competition for the world's cropland. (1980) (70)
- The Great Transition: Shifting from Fossil Fuels to Solar and Wind Energy (2015) (64)
- Saving the planet : how to shape an environmentally sustainable global economy (1991) (63)
- By bread alone (1974) (61)
- Redefining National Security. Worldwatch Paper 14. (1977) (60)
- Tough choices : facing the challenge of food scarcity (1997) (56)
- Vital signs 1992 : the trends that are shaping our future (1992) (55)
- State of the World 1994 (1994) (55)
- The World Food Prospect (1975) (53)
- A new economy for a new century. (1999) (53)
- State of the world 1999. (1999) (50)
- Vital Signs 2000: The Environmental Trends That Are Shaping Our Future (1997) (48)
- Vital signs : the environmental trends that are shaping our future (1998) (47)
- The agricultural link: how environmental deterioration could disrupt economic progress. (1997) (45)
- Spreading Deserts--The Hand of Man. (1977) (42)
- Facing food insecurity (1994) (40)
- Twenty-two dimensions of the population problem. (1976) (39)
- Reversing Africa's Decline (1985) (38)
- State of the World 1996 (1971) (35)
- The Earth Policy Reader (2002) (35)
- Feeding the world in the nineties. (1990) (34)
- The global loss of topsoil (1984) (32)
- Food versus fuel. (1980) (31)
- Beyond Malthus : sixteen dimensions of the population problem (1998) (29)
- The twenty-ninth day: accommodating human needs and numbers to the earth's resources. (1978) (29)
- World population trends: signs of hope, signs of stress. (1976) (28)
- The Changing World Food Prospect: the Nineties and Beyond (1988) (28)
- Future of Urbanization: Facing the Ecological and Economic Constraints (1987) (27)
- Rice Bowls and Dust Bowls: Africa, Not China, Faces a Food Crisis (1996) (26)
- State of the world 1997. (1997) (26)
- Six Steps to a Sustainable Society (1982) (24)
- Charting a sustainable course. (1987) (23)
- The State of the World-1984 (1985) (22)
- Spreading Deserts--The Hand of Man. Worldwatch Paper 13. (1977) (22)
- Facing the prospect of food scarcity. (1997) (22)
- Reversing Africa's Decline. Worldwatch Paper 65. (1985) (21)
- State of the world 1984. A Worldwatch Institute Report on progress towards a sustainable society. (1984) (21)
- Eroding the base of civilization (1981) (20)
- Building the New Economy (2020) (20)
- Facing the challenge of food scarcity: Can we raise grain yields fast enough? (1997) (19)
- Preserving global cropland. (1997) (18)
- Spreading deserts—The hand of man (1978) (18)
- The World Outlook for Conventional Agriculture (1967) (17)
- A New Era Unfolds (1993) (17)
- Vital signs 1996-97: the trends that are shaping our future. (1997) (17)
- The future of the automobile in an oil-short world (1979) (16)
- Our Demographically Divided World (1986) (15)
- The illusion of progress. (1990) (15)
- International disaster relief : toward a responsive system (1977) (15)
- Increasing World Food Output: Problems and Prospects (1965) (15)
- The Agricultural Revolution in Asia (1968) (14)
- Man, Land and Food: Looking Ahead at World Food Needs (1963) (13)
- Feeding the developing world in the next millennium: a question of science? (2000) (13)
- Vital Signs 1998-1999: The Environmental Trends That Are Shaping Our Future (1998) (12)
- The global competition for land (1991) (11)
- In the Human Interest: A Strategy to Stabilize World Population (1974) (11)
- The Future of Urbanization: Facing the Ecological and Economic Constraints. Worldwatch Paper 77. (1987) (11)
- Man and his environment : food (1972) (10)
- The Global Economic Prospect: New Sources of Economic Stress. Worldwatch Paper 20. (1978) (9)
- Vital Signs 2000 (2000) (8)
- Twenty-Two Dimensions of the Population Problem. Worldwatch Paper 5. (1976) (8)
- Increasing World Food Output (1965) (8)
- The Next Crisis? Food (1973) (7)
- China Is Replacing US as World's Leading Consumer (2005) (7)
- Protecting the Planet in the Age of Globalization (2000) (7)
- Saving the Planet (1991) (7)
- The social impact of the green revolution (1971) (7)
- Launching the environmental revolution (1992) (7)
- The world watch reader on global environmental issues (1991) (7)
- 9 – THE ROLE OF FERTILIZER (1975) (7)
- HIV Epidemic Restructuring Africa's Population: A missing generation - a population of orphans - a shortage of women (2002) (7)
- Six Steps to a Sustainable Society. Worldwatch Paper 48. (1982) (6)
- From growth to sustainable development. (1992) (6)
- The Urban Prospect: Reexamining the Basic Assumptions (1976) (6)
- Resource Trends and Population Policy: A Time for Reassessment. Worldwatch Paper 29. (1979) (5)
- Agricultural Diversification and Economic Development in Thailand: A Case Study (1963) (5)
- Soils and civilisation: The decline in food security (1983) (5)
- The Aral Sea: Disaster Area and Interdisciplinary Solution (1991) (5)
- The Worldwide Loss of Cropland (1978) (5)
- World food resources and population: the narrowing margin. (1981) (5)
- U.S. and Soviet Agriculture: The Shifting Balance of Power. Worldwatch Paper 51. (1982) (4)
- Global Food Prospects: Shadow of Malthus (1982) (4)
- China`s challenge to the United States and to the earth (1996) (4)
- Vital Signs 2000-2001: The Environmental Trends That Are Shaping Our Future (2000) (4)
- State of the World, 1984: A Worldwatch Institute Report on Progress toward a Sustainable Society. First Edition. (1984) (4)
- Our Demographically Divided World, Worldwatch Paper 74. (1986) (3)
- Preventing chronic disease in developing countries. (1997) (3)
- Outlining a global action plan. (1989) (3)
- Vanishing Croplands: Agriculture Losing Ground (1978) (3)
- Vital signs 1994-1995 (1994) (3)
- The new agricultural revolution. (1970) (3)
- A Crisis of Many Dimensions: Putting Food on the World's Table (1984) (3)
- Putting Society on a New Path (1982) (3)
- Feeding six billion. (1989) (2)
- Global Food Prospects: Setting the Record Straight (1982) (2)
- Population Policies for a New Economic Era. Worldwatch Paper 53. (1983) (2)
- Population Growth, Food Needs and Production Problems (1965) (2)
- Abortion liberalization: A worldwide trend. (1976) (2)
- Man, food, and environmental interrelationships. (1976) (2)
- Rising Food Prices: Who's Responsible? (1973) (2)
- 6 – LAND FOR FOOD (1975) (2)
- Reassessing the earth’s population (1995) (2)
- ワールドウォッチ研究所地球環境データブック = The environmental trends that are shaping our future : Vital signs (2000) (2)
- Economic Bases for Lessening U.S.-Soviet Tensions. (1982) (2)
- Man, food and environment (1971) (1)
- 14 – SIMPLIFYING DIETS (1975) (1)
- Learning to live together on a small planet (1979) (1)
- A Threat to Global Stability (2008) (1)
- The Moral Fog of Progress ‐ Fall 2003 (2008) (1)
- Competition for cropland. (1981) (1)
- Population, environment and development : reversing Africa's decline (1985) (1)
- AUTOMOBILES: A HAZY FUTURE (1984) (1)
- Breaking out or breaking down. (1999) (1)
- Commentary—Population growth, food needs and environmental stress (1972) (1)
- The Earth Policy Reader: Today's Decisions, Tomorrow's World (2003) (1)
- The US.-Soviet Food Connection (1983) (1)
- New directions in world agriculture. (1968) (1)
- The future of automobiles (1984) (1)
- How to Feed 8 Billion People (2009) (1)
- Fuel farms: croplands of the future (1980) (1)
- China's War with the Desert (2003) (1)
- THE ENVIRONMENTAL CONSEQUENCES OF MANS QUEST FOR FOOD (1971) (1)
- Facing Chinas limits. (1994) (1)
- The Japanese agricultural economy. (1961) (1)
- An Economic Analysis of Far Eastern Agriculture (1961) (1)
- 8 – ENERGY AND AGRICULTURE (1975) (1)
- The Future of Urbanization: Facing The Ecological and Economic Restraints (1986) (1)
- The Economy and the Earth (2013) (1)
- Abroad: Origins of the African Food Crisis (1985) (1)
- U.S. & Soviet Agriculture (1982) (1)
- Narrowing the Food Gap (1968) (1)
- Global Ecology at the Brink (1989) (1)
- Environmental Policy: A Sustainable Society (1982) (1)
- The Food Connection: Transforming the U.S.-Soviet Relationship. (1982) (1)
- Vital signs : trends that are shaping our future, 1992-1993 (1992) (1)
- Food and Hunger: The Balance Sheet (1974) (1)
- Eco-Economy: Dialogue with Lester R. Brown (2002) (0)
- The Food Prospect (1978) (0)
- 4 – ECOLOGICAL UNDERMINING OF FOOD SYSTEMS (1975) (0)
- The environmental consequences of man's quest for food. (1971) (0)
- Stabilizing Population by Reducing Fertility (2013) (0)
- THE AILING PLANET: THE GREEN MOVEMENT‟S ROLE -By (2016) (0)
- Redesigning Cities for People (2013) (0)
- Now, the Food Price Bubble (2011) (0)
- World Food Problem: A Hard Look Ahead (1965) (0)
- Vital signs 1993-1994 (1993) (0)
- Food connection: transforming the US-Soviet relationship (1982) (0)
- Putting society on a new path. [Dimensions of the global energy problem] (1982) (0)
- An Exchange on Food (1974) (0)
- Reassessing population policy (1995) (0)
- The Future Is Upon Us ‐ Spring 2005 (2008) (0)
- Crossing the threshold: pressures on earth's biological systems. [Environmental impacts of population growth] (1979) (0)
- 12 – NON-CONVENTIONAL FOOD SOURCES (1975) (0)
- A Harvest of Neglect the World's Declining Cropland (1979) (0)
- Ecology Lessons from a Lily Pond. (1978) (0)
- OIL PUTS CARS ON THE SPOT (1979) (0)
- Can the world do better in the 1990s? (1989) (0)
- 11 – DEEP TROUBLE IN OCEANIC FISHERIES (1975) (0)
- Can we feed ourselves? : a focus on Asia (2000) (0)
- Land Use and Urbanization: Ecological and Economic Factors (2017) (0)
- Feeding Everyone Well (2013) (0)
- A decade of discontinuity. [The earth planet faces a future of declines in productivity on all fronts] (1993) (0)
- Depending on others for Minerals (1972) (0)
- World grain takes a spill. (1992) (0)
- 23. U.S. and Soviet Agriculture: The Shifting Balance of Power (1986) (0)
- Food as fuel (1980) (0)
- Global economic IIIs: the worst may be yet to come (1978) (0)
- 2 – HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY OF MALNUTRITION (1975) (0)
- Minting for the Future: 1-1 Forestry for Human Needs 1JJ (2011) (0)
- 5 – GROWING GLOBAL FOOD INSECURITY (1975) (0)
- 7 – WATER AND BREAD (1975) (0)
- U.S. & Soviet Agriculture: The Shifting Balance of Power (1982) (0)
- Our stake in commercial agriculture, rural poverty and world trade (1965) (0)
- Discussion: The Food Potential of Developing Nations (1967) (0)
- THE FUTURE OF THE AUTO: DIFFICULT CHOICES (1980) (0)
- The Changing Face of Global Food Scarcity. (1974) (0)
- A population stabilization programme. (1969) (0)
- The Race to Save Civilization (2010) (0)
- Breaking New Ground: A Personal History (2013) (0)
- The Changing Global Economic Context (1983) (0)
- Abortion: a worldwide trend toward liberalization. (1976) (0)
- IMPLICATIONS OF CHANGING TRADE PROGRAMS TO U.S. AGRICULTURE (1965) (0)
- The Conceptual Transformation of the Environment toward Global Cooperation for Environmental Protection (1996) (0)
- Fossil to Solar and Wind (2015) (0)
- State of the world, 1984 (book review) (1984) (0)
- Designing a New Materials Economy (2013) (0)
- Looking at Resource Trends Through a Population Lens (2019) (0)
- Building a New World (1992) (0)
- The urban prospect: Re-examining the basic assumptions (1978) (0)
- Stabilizing population. (1998) (0)
- Feeding the seven billion (2006) (0)
- A Blueprint for Saving Civilization: Putting Plan B into Action (2009) (0)
- Assessing the planet's condition. (1990) (0)
- 13 – PUTTING ON THE DEMOGRAPHIC BRAKES (1975) (0)
- World Hunger: Will We Get Enough to Eat?. (1982) (0)
- 16 – ALLEVIATING INSECURITY: SPECIAL MEASURES (1975) (0)
- Discussion: Production Problems and Issues in Agricultural Development (1966) (0)
- A decade of discontinuity. (1993) (0)
- 1 – OVERVIEW: THE CHANGING FACE OF FOOD SCARCITY (1975) (0)
- Food consumption and expenditures: India, Japan, United States. (2017) (0)
- [Population explosion: risks of overpopulation for international politics]. (1977) (0)
- 17 – COMPLEXITY, CHANGE, LEADERSHIP (1975) (0)
- 10 – THE GREEN REVOLUTION: OPPORTUNITY LOST? (1975) (0)
- 15 – HUNGER AND UNEMPLOYMENT: MUTUAL SOLUTIONS? (1975) (0)
- Experiencing Hiroshima Again (2012) (0)
- Tools for Restructuring the Economy (2013) (0)
- Grain for eight billion. (1992) (0)
- Globalization and the Environment: Building a Sustainable Society (2007) (0)
- World Gains in Family Planning (1977) (0)
- How Does One Feed Nine Billion People (2011) (0)
- The Cairo plan. (1994) (0)
- Building the Solar/Hydrogen Economy (2013) (0)
- The people yet to come; avoiding the demographic trap. (1987) (0)
- Trends in Soviet agriculture (1983) (0)
- Agricultural diversification and econmic development in Thailand (1963) (0)
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